They look at people like you or me and they fundamentally believe that they could never attain our lives.Īnd if you take that a level deeper, and really take apart how they must view themselves….well, you know where that would take you. They truly believe they will be forever destitute and struggling. Most of those folks TRULY TRULY believe, deep in their souls, that this is the life they were destined for and there is no way out for them. Most of them have never been introduced to those ideas. If you take that knowledge to its logical conclusion, homeless people and people living in poverty don’t understand any of that. I know enough about you to know that you fully understand things like the Law of Attraction and you know how critically important it is to have your head together in order to move into positivity and abundance in life. My community, and your community, includes these people. My business is to positively contribute to my community. He may well be an addict just looking for a fix. It’s not because I don’t think he has resources. And if I have nothing, I always say “I’m sorry, I just don’t have any cash on me”.
Unlike you, I always give if I have cash on me. Over the past five years our homeless population has skyrocketed, while the services available to them have dwindled. I’m asking you to reconsider that conclusion. So, I presume your logic for not giving to panhandlers is like that of many…”they have resources to use, they just chose not to, so they don’t deserve my money”. It was the part where you explained that you never give money to homeless panhandlers because you had a homeless person give you a “tour of homelessness” in San Francisco and they pointed out all the places where homeless people can get services. One teeny tiny part of that interview really startled me and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. I recently listened to the episode of Freakanomics that you were on. The emptiness of the “if I only had that” illusion.Disgraced plagiarist Jonah Lehrer on combining insecurity and ambition.“If you don’t know how much you need, the default easily becomes ‘more.'”.We pick up the pace to keep up with others - but what if there’s more than one race going on?.The more we accomplish, the more often we meet people who have accomplished more - and the smaller we feel in comparison.The consequences of saying “yes” when we fear saying “no.”.Why do we covet what others have instead of being happy with our own successes?.Two Civil War heroes take very different paths following the war.Disgraced Journalist Jonah Lehrer Talks About His Misdeeds Wants to Earn Trust by Paul Raeburn, The Huffington Post.The Concept of Euthymia, Giovanni A.Fava and Per Bech, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.Explaining the idiom “ Keeping up with the Joneses“.After the War from the memoirs of William T.Grant Administration: 1869-1877, Authentic History Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday (also on Audible).
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